Chris Pratt

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The good-looking goofball next door, Chris Pratt's secret weapons were his offbeat charm and innate decency, a rare combination in cutthroat Hollywood. He made his first mark as the dim-but-lovable Bright Abbott on "Everwood" (The WB, 2002-06), and followed that up as a spacey student on the last season of "The O.C." (FOX, 2003-07). On the big screen, he survived an Amy Sedaris seduction attempt in "Strangers with Candy" (2005), subtly undermined James McAvoy in "Wanted" (2008), and found himself dumped by Anne Hathaway in "Bride Wars" (2009). Fans eagerly followed his real-life romance with his "Everwood" onscreen sister Emily VanCamp and 2009 marriage to movie star Anna Faris, but his biggest success came in the breakout role of the clueless-but-lovable Andy Dwyer on "Parks and Recreation" (NBC, 2009-15). While Pratt may have made his name playing charming chuckleheads, the actor proved that he could do much more by starring in two of the biggest hits of 2014, "The LEGO Movie" and "Guardians of the Galaxy." Suddenly vaulting to Hollywood royalty, Pratt expanded his purview by starring in the blockbuster "Jurassic World" (2015), western update "The Magnificent Seven" (2016) and science fiction romance "Passengers" (2016) before returning to the roles that made him a star in "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" (2017) and "Jurassic World" (2018).Born in Virginia, MN on June 21, 1979 but raised in Lake Stevens, WA, Christopher Michael Pratt was an athlete in high school with a fondness for hunting and fishing. After graduation, he moved to Hawaii and began waiting tables at Maui's Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. Fate intervened when he waited on actress Rae Dawn Chong, charming her with his sense of humor so much that she cast him in the comic horror movie she was writing-directing, "Cursed Part 3" (2000). Although the movie never quite saw the light of day, the experience convinced Pratt to stay in Los Angeles, where he bought a used car, landed an agent, and hit the audition rounds. He earned his SAG card on an episode of the Annette O'Toole bounty hunter series, "The Huntress" (USA Network, 2000-01), and then nabbed a regular series role on the Treat Williams drama "Everwood" (The WB, 2002-06).Following the families and competing practices of two local doctors in a small Colorado town, the heartfelt show cast Pratt as Bright Abbott, an intricately wound football player who struggled to find acceptance from his doctor father. For his fan-favorite performance, Pratt received two Teen Choice Award nominations. On the show, his sister was played by Emily VanCamp, and the two actors fell in love off-screen, their brief romance causing a minor scandal that bothered fans more than those who actually worked on the show. During the run of "Everwood," a pilot Pratt had shot in 2001 finally aired as a TV movie, "The Extreme Team" (ABC, 2003), which cast him as a snowboarder recruited as a secret agent for the U.S. government.Alongside Danica McKellar, a bespectacled Pratt starred as a scientist intent on stopping a nanotechnology disaster in "Path of Destruction" (Syfy, 2005), but fared better as Jerri Blank's love object in the big-screen version of the Comedy Central series "Strangers with Candy" (2005). After "Everwood" ended, Pratt's next series television venture came with the last season of the teen drama "The O.C." (FOX, 2003-07). As the would-be protestor Winchester "Che" Cook, he had odd flirtations with both Summer (Rachel Bilson) and Seth (Adam Brody), the show's supercouple. Pratt made a strong comic impression in the Angelina Jolie action hit "Wanted" (2008) as James McAvoy's undermining best friend, and offered support as the fiancé of Anne Hathaway in the critically maligned box office hit "Bride Wars" (2009). The handsome-yet-rough-around-the-edges Pratt wrung a few laughs out of his brief appearance in Diablo Cody's comic-tinged horror movie "Jennifer's Body" (2009) as Megan Fox's small-town ex-boyfriend. Professionally, he bro